After incessantly fighting for weeks, the parents of medical aspirants were going to succeed in their endeavour with President Pranab Mukherjee signing on the dotted line yesterday. He did, but there was no sign of success as the rules of the ordinance say that although the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) has been postponed for a year and admissions can take place based on states’ common entrance tests (CETs), only seats of government medical colleges, and not private ones, will be filled this year.

Parents formed a human chain to protest against the SC verdict but their fight didn’t prove quite fruitful. File pic/PTI